RE: (rshsdepot) Hoboken, NJ (Hoboken Terminal)

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Is the ferry concourse going to remain the seciond largest such
unencumbered space behind the Great hall in Versailles?

Are they going to keep the ferry slip gate signs taht say To Barclay Street?


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> From: <I95BERNIEW_@_aol.com>
> To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Date: 6/22/2007 5:54:52 PM
> Subject: (rshsdepot) Hoboken, NJ (Hoboken Terminal)
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> From today's Jersey Journal.
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> Bernie Wagenblast
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> Clock tower rising in Hoboken 
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> Thursday, June 21, 2007  
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> By CARLY BALDWIN
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> JOURNAL STAFF WRITER 
> HOBOKEN - As they hop on the PATH for work each morning, commuters may
notice 
>  the 120-foot-tall steel structure standing on top of the green copper
train  
> terminal.  
> The steel beams are the base of the new Hoboken clock tower, part of NJ  
> Transit's $115 million renovation of Hoboken Terminal. NJ Transit is also

> preparing to reopen ferry service, which has not run out of the actual
terminal  
> since 1967.  
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> The restoration is expected to be complete by the spring of 2009. Some
50,000 
>  daily commuters use the 100-year-old terminal, which is on the state and

> national historic registers.  
> "Our options were to let it rot and fall in the river and we didn't want
to  
> do that," said Frank Smolar, NJ Transit's director of capital projects.
"This 
> is  a landmark building. This is the only ferry terminal on the Jersey
side of 
> the  river where (people) can get train, light rail and subway
connections."  
> Ferries will run out of five new slips and shops and restaurants will
also be 
>  opened at the terminal. NY Waterways will operate boats at the terminal,
but 
>  there may be other ferry lines there in the future, said Smolar.  
> A sixth slip will be used as a museum to showcase old gangplanks and
walkways 
>  from ferries from the turn of the last century.  
> "We want to make this a destination," said Smolar. "There's an aesthetic  
> value, an appreciation of the history of this building that we want to  
> preserve."  
> The clock tower will be finished next spring and will be an exact replica
of  
> the original, which was built in 1907 in the Beaux-Arts style. Standing
230 
> feet  tall, the tower will be illuminated at night and should be visible
from 
> New York  and along the Hudson County waterfront.  
> Like the original, which was taken down after a storm in the 1950s, the
clock 
>  tower will be have clocks on all four sides and feature 4-foot backlit 
> letters  spelling the word "Lackawanna" on four sides as well.  
> Ferries first started bringing wealthy New Yorkers to summer vacation
homes  
> in Hoboken in 1811. Almost a hundred years later, Hoboken Terminal was  
> constructed in 1907 by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, which
also took 
> over operation of the ferries, said David Koenig, historic  preservation 
> specialist at NJ Transit.  
> In addition to passengers, Lackawanna trains shipped anthracite coal from

> Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley to Hoboken.  
> But the creation of the Hudson and Manhattan Tubes - the predecessor of
the  
> PATH system - in 1908 and later the opening of the Holland Tunnel in 1927
took 
>  riders off the ferries and trains.  
> Train service continued to run, but Lackawanna shut down the ferries in
1967. 
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> In 1975, the state Department of Transportation bought the terminal and  
> started subsidizing rail lines. Ferry service started up again in 1989
out of a  
> temporary spot in the former Immigrant and Pullman building, at the far
south  
> end of the terminal. 
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